IMPHAL: On one hand sporadic incidents of violence continue to plague the Northeastern state of Manipur and on the other hand, miscreants have engaged in looting business establishments. In one of the recent incidents, unidentified miscreants looted a branch of a private bank in the state.
According to reports from the state, miscreants broke into the Churachadpur branch of the Axis Bank and made away with valuables. The total loot is expected to be worth around Rs 1.5 Cr and it comprised of cash, gold ornaments and other valuables that were kept in the branch. It is important to note that the branch was closed for the last two months since the violence had broken out in the state.
Reports mentioned that miscreants had drilled a hole in the concrete structure of the building to make their way into the bank and made away with the valuables.
Meanwhile, the Manipur government’s Home Department has asked the Director General of Police to file an FIR against the Zomi Students’ Federation Union for publishing a book titled “The Inevitable Split – Documents on State sponsored ethnic cleansing in Manipur, 2023”, and take stern action against the publishers and to ban the book. The state’s Home Commissioner T. Ranjit Singh in a “most urgent letter” to Director General of Police Rajiv Singh requested to take stern actions against the person/persons of the Zomi Students’ Federation Union who published the book “The Inevitable Split - Documents on State-sponsored ethnic cleansing in Manipur, 2023,” and banning the book’s further publication.
Referring to a complaint letter from an advocate Thokchom Punshiba Singh, the letter requested the DGP to take necessary action to register FIR against the accused author and organisation under the relevant IPC section(s), and also take appropriate steps to submit a detailed proposal to forfeit and issue necessary search warrants against the book under section 95 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 by way of notification in Gazette at the earliest in the public interest.
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